At that same moment, on the edge of the Dimensional Rift.
Twelve hundred streaks of light abruptly stopped.
Lin Ye raised his hand. "We're here."
Ahead lay the Void, dominated by dark red light.
Three hundred Taotie War Beasts, like three hundred rotting stars, surrounded the pale purple Remnant Realm at their center without leaving a single gap. Each beast breathed streams of dark red devouring light, which converged into three main channels and poured into three colossal creatures suspended at the core-
Flagship-Class Devouring Beasts.
Each had the total mass of a planetary civilization. Their bodies were piled together from the wreckage of countless devoured civilizations: shattered planets, torn megastructures, and frozen life-forms slowly writhed in the dark red light.
The one in the very center was twice the size of the other two. A dark red crown floated above his head, condensed from pure devouring will. With every pulse, the final wails of countless devoured civilizations spread outward.
"The Taotie Court's Third Fleet flagship-[World-Eater]," Order's Dawn's voice rang out in Lin Ye's mind. "The crowned one is the fleet commander, Greedy Wolf. The number of civilizations he has devoured... is impossible to count."
Lin Ye said nothing.
He merely gazed quietly at the besieged Remnant Realm, at the dream barrier as thin as a cicada's wing, and at the pale purple silhouette taking shape within it, so strikingly similar to himself.
Behind him, three hundred and seventy-two streams of light trembled gently.
They recognized those Dreamweavers. Within the Taotie's digestive systems, they had once coexisted with the lingering resentment of countless Dreamweavers. They were fellow sufferers, brethren devoured by the same enemy.
Lin Ye smiled. "Don't worry. This time, we're not here to see anyone off. We're here to bring them home."
He raised his hand, and the